https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/iceland-to-officially-worship-norse-gods-again
this is quite interesting of a turn of .. traditions.. indeed..
this is quite interesting of a turn of .. traditions.. indeed..
What religion/faith are you?
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That's nice of Iceland to still pay them respect even though Thanos killed most of them.
I'm very late to THIS party. In my defense, I don't visit TBBS very often anymore and I frequent MISC even less.
Nevertheless: Christian, Protestant, Reformed Baptist.
Nevertheless: Christian, Protestant, Reformed Baptist.
So I'm thinking, Apollo gave up too soon.
Religion is some kind of difficult topic for me, but also an interesting one. On paper, I'm christian. I have in general a quite critical - but not necessarily hostile - point of view towards religions and many of their aspects. I noticed that in discussions about religion, people sometimes tend to see me as an atheist, but I wouldn't agree on that. I actually do believe that something exists, you may call it god. So it's not that I don't believe in anything, but my point of view wouldn't probably fit directly into any religion. In the end, I would define myself as a christ, but I don't take it all too seriously. It's not that I go to church each sunday for example, and despite being heterosexual, I'm also perfectly fine with homosexuality and I support the right to gay marriage. I'm not gonna say that being a "typical" christ means automatically being conservative concerning matters like these, but it's definitely the case sometimes, same with other religions. I'm also a strong supporter of science which might also contradict religious beliefs sometimes. I don't feel however that relying on science and believing in some greater entity like god do necessarily contradict each other.
That description seems close to Deist, if you're into labels.
I don't get why they'd worship Norse gots, the Asgard never really help us when we really need them.
I don't get why they'd worship Norse gots, the Asgard never really help us when we really need them.
Tbh I hear this for the first time now. What exactly is a Deist?
Basically it means, there's a god but he doesn't do anything fancy like turning water into wine or bringing people back from the dead... So don't waste your time in prayers because they'll have no effect. In essence, it's really hard to tell the difference between a deist, an atheist, or someone who just doesn't give a rat's patooty about the whole thing.
I was raised in a very strict and old fashioned Christian household (the kind where working on Sunday means you might as well worship Satan, and women are just supposed to go to school long enough to get a husband and become a baby factory). This strongly influenced my beliefs today, I most closely associate with agnostic, I can't believe there isn't a higher power, but at the same time I can't believe that the religion that was used by my parents and school teachers (went to a private religious school) as an excuse to subjugate and judge people is the best one out there. I moved out a little over a year ago and am now starting to breakdown and figure out what I believe, and how it works in my life and future.
^Or you worship panthers.
I'm a Christian, and I believe my soul will go to Heaven when I die.
I'm a Christian too. In my part of the world there are mainly 2 kinds of Christians : Orthodox Christians and Catholic ones. The Catholics are also dived into Greek Catholics and Roman Catholics.
My mother is a Roman Catholic Christian and my father is an Orthodox Christian.
I was baptized in an ex-Greek Catholic church which has turned in time or given to the Orthodox Christians.
I was baptized as an Orthodox Christian (after my father's religion)in an ex-Greek Christian Church lol
My grandfather used to take me to church every Sunday when I visited them, but I think I was never very religious.
I did pray so far and also believe in God, but on some things I like more the scientific explanation of things.
Therefore I don't believe in heaven, hell nor in the purgatory.
P.S. in these parts there's no difference between the Catholics and the Orthodox Christians they practically consider they are all Christians and believe in the same God.
The Orthodox Christians are similar to the Greek Russian (Orthodox church) design and the Catholics are very similar to the (German or Italian Catholics).
My mother is a Roman Catholic Christian and my father is an Orthodox Christian.
I was baptized in an ex-Greek Catholic church which has turned in time or given to the Orthodox Christians.
I was baptized as an Orthodox Christian (after my father's religion)in an ex-Greek Christian Church lol
My grandfather used to take me to church every Sunday when I visited them, but I think I was never very religious.
I did pray so far and also believe in God, but on some things I like more the scientific explanation of things.
Therefore I don't believe in heaven, hell nor in the purgatory.
P.S. in these parts there's no difference between the Catholics and the Orthodox Christians they practically consider they are all Christians and believe in the same God.
The Orthodox Christians are similar to the Greek Russian (Orthodox church) design and the Catholics are very similar to the (German or Italian Catholics).
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If we're giving history... I was raised Roman Catholic, which was my mother's religion. My father was raised vaguely Baptist, but there wasn't much church-going or anything, so he was okay with me being raised Catholic, because he figured it gave me a base. I went to Catholic schools all through grade school and high school.
When I was about 12 or 13, I started questioning my faith and eventually rejected it. I was a teenager, so I was angry and resentful and felt betrayed. I joked that I was too pissed off at God to be an atheist.
Sometime after college a friend of a friend loaned me a book called The Spiral Dance. It was about modern Witchcraft as a Nature Religion, focused on a Goddess and God. Much of it was "hey, I've always felt like this but didn't have words for it", especially as I was always big on mythology (mostly Greek, as that was what I was exposed to in Wonder Woman). I also loved that, since it's based on observable nature, science is intertwined (IMO).
I've read *a lot* more books and talked to a lot more people since then. I consider myself a Witch and a Pagan. I don't have a lot of discipline, so I'm not particularly skilled in any of the "craft" parts. I just try to pay attention to the "real world" - the seasons, the moon, the plants and animals around me, etc. I've also studied a lot of world mythology and religion, which is why I have no firm beliefs on an afterlife - there are *so many* different ideas out there! So any of them could be right, or none of them.
Some years back, some of my close friends returned to, and others converted to, Catholicism. It was... rough for me. I really didn't understand and I said and did some very stupid and hurtful things that I regret. After a great deal of soul-searching, I reclaimed my Catholic background. I have great respect for the teachings of Jesus/Yeshua and there are many things in my religious upbringing that I love. I disagree with many of the Church's teachings, but I respect the people I love and focus on the things we have in common rather than on where we differ.
TMI?
When I was about 12 or 13, I started questioning my faith and eventually rejected it. I was a teenager, so I was angry and resentful and felt betrayed. I joked that I was too pissed off at God to be an atheist.
Sometime after college a friend of a friend loaned me a book called The Spiral Dance. It was about modern Witchcraft as a Nature Religion, focused on a Goddess and God. Much of it was "hey, I've always felt like this but didn't have words for it", especially as I was always big on mythology (mostly Greek, as that was what I was exposed to in Wonder Woman
). I also loved that, since it's based on observable nature, science is intertwined (IMO).I've read *a lot* more books and talked to a lot more people since then. I consider myself a Witch and a Pagan. I don't have a lot of discipline, so I'm not particularly skilled in any of the "craft" parts. I just try to pay attention to the "real world" - the seasons, the moon, the plants and animals around me, etc. I've also studied a lot of world mythology and religion, which is why I have no firm beliefs on an afterlife - there are *so many* different ideas out there! So any of them could be right, or none of them.
Some years back, some of my close friends returned to, and others converted to, Catholicism. It was... rough for me. I really didn't understand and I said and did some very stupid and hurtful things that I regret. After a great deal of soul-searching, I reclaimed my Catholic background. I have great respect for the teachings of Jesus/Yeshua and there are many things in my religious upbringing that I love. I disagree with many of the Church's teachings, but I respect the people I love and focus on the things we have in common rather than on where we differ.
TMI?
I'm an atheist, I believe when you die you're just gone. Though I am not 100% certain and hope I'm wrong.
My parents are agnostically Christian. My mother goes to church for the community, my father does not. When I was a kid and they tried to introduce the idea of religion to me, I was previously told that people could be whatever they wanted to be and hated the idea there was something controlling your fate for you. They made me go to church until I was 10 'Just in case' (To avoid the guilt if later I turned out Christian and got mad at them for not bringing me to church), but it was a UCC church that was pretty liberal.
I call the UCC "Unitarians who believe in God".
My parents are agnostically Christian. My mother goes to church for the community, my father does not. When I was a kid and they tried to introduce the idea of religion to me, I was previously told that people could be whatever they wanted to be and hated the idea there was something controlling your fate for you. They made me go to church until I was 10 'Just in case' (To avoid the guilt if later I turned out Christian and got mad at them for not bringing me to church), but it was a UCC church that was pretty liberal.
I call the UCC "Unitarians who believe in God".
Deism is what many of the "founding fathers" of the United States were. Here's Wikipedia:
Deism is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge, and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe. Deism is also defined as the belief in the existence of God solely based on rational thought, without any reliance on revealed religions or religious authority. Deism emphasizes the concept of natural theology, that is, God's existence is revealed through nature.
Thing is that people meet in these church communities because they feel somehow united there, or they miss something.
I wouldn't say it is a bad thing since all these communities help each other especially in the States. Regardless in what do they believe...
There's this attractive woman working in a supermarket close to my home (I already have a wife - but I'm just saying)....about 15 - 17 years younger than me.... so she is very attractive / and she kept looking at me, I noticed her too.... but of course I haven't done anything since I'm already "taken")
So she works in this supermarket and in a Sunday I met a friend downtown and had a coffee. Suddenly I see her with another woman, pushing this small cart and sharing freely some magazines.
Then I just realized it was her day off and during this day she was giving people free magazines about Jehova's Witnesses It must be some connection between attractive women and religion.... don't know
Here's what I'm talking about when I'm talking about these church communities ....
I wouldn't say it is a bad thing since all these communities help each other especially in the States. Regardless in what do they believe...
There's this attractive woman working in a supermarket close to my home (I already have a wife - but I'm just saying)....about 15 - 17 years younger than me.... so she is very attractive / and she kept looking at me, I noticed her too.... but of course I haven't done anything since I'm already "taken"
)So she works in this supermarket and in a Sunday I met a friend downtown and had a coffee. Suddenly I see her with another woman, pushing this small cart and sharing freely some magazines.
Then I just realized it was her day off and during this day she was giving people free magazines about Jehova's Witnesses
It must be some connection between attractive women and religion.... don't know Here's what I'm talking about when I'm talking about these church communities ....
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